The Sun. — London, England, 1810-08-21 00:00:00

i 1.-T • .ga , e orders for repairing the works. that were in the liTinity of peligrad. A number or the peasantry and 3000 of his troops were employed on ,the wylks. . • It is' furn.iured ) .,that on the 7th Czerni- G orge engaged the Turks in the valley near Banja, and defeated- them with great slaughter. • This news' wants confirroalion. We -have , just received intelligence from Walla chia that Rudschnk had surrendered. A letier from 13ucharest says, that subsequent to the battle at Schtunla; the Grand Vizier con. (tined his retreat towards Romelia, and that the . Bus,ians were daily advanthlg turtliei into Bulgaria. f;') 1 1.1 was ma, however, - supposed that they would 'proceed much farther - until the arrival of the c,onsi '.. tlerAh!e 'reinforcements now on their march to join • them. The loss of the Russians'since the opening • of the camt.kaiot is c.ilculated at ;20:000 men. REPORT, TO - GETilan WITH MINUTES . OF EVIDENCE, AND AC- COUNTS FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE HIGH PRICE GOLD BULLION. rr Coniinked Jrcin Yei dqy. Upon. these principles, your. Committee desired Mr. Greff'ilhe to make certain calculations, which appear in his answers to the (ollowiag questions, viz. . . ' St?pposing you had a pound weight troy of gold ollite English standard at. Paris, and that you wished .by meani H of that to procure a bill" of .ex , change, what' would be.the amount of the bill of ex • change. which you would procure in the present : circumstances ?-I.fittd that a pound of gold of the standarri at the present market price 01105 nes, and the exchangeat . 20 livres,i-would pur chase a bill of cxcliange of 591. Bs. " At thq present market p'rice of gold in Lon don, how much standard gold can you purchase for 591. Bs. ?—At the Price of 41..125. I find it will purchase 13 ounces of wild, within a very- small frac=tioii. • Then what isthe. difference per cent. in the quantity of standard gold which is equivalent to, 59L gs. of Our currency as at Paris and in London ? gi per cent. " Suppose you have a pound weight troy of our .start lard gold at Hamburgh, and that you wished to 'part With it fnr a bill of exchange upon London, "vilkat would be the amount of the bill of exchange, which, in the present circumstances, your would Procure,?—At the Hamburgh price of 101, and the exchange at 29, the amount of the bill purchased on London would be . 581. 45., " What quantity . of our 'standard gold, at the present . price 'of 41. • 12s. •do you purchase, for 5Sl:4s. ) ---About 12 ounces and 3 dwts. " Then what is the difference per cent. between- the quantity of standard •gold at Hamburgh and in lLonct•rt i which is,equivalent to 4s. sterling ? About 51,per cent. • " Suopose you had a pound weight troy of our • standard gold at Amsterdam, and wisited to part with it for a bill of exchange :upon ,Lo.idon, what would be the amount sterling of the bill of exchange which you 'would proct;re ?—At the Amsterdam, price ,of 141; exclia; - .:;;': 31. G. and Rank ago 1 per cent. the amount of the bill on London' would ' be .581. 18s. " At..-tbe present price of 41. ifs. what quantity of our standard gold do you r purchase in London for 581. 18s. sterling ?,--12 oz. 10 dwts. • " How' much is that per cent. ?-7. per cent.s' Simihr calculations, but made upon different as ' sutned data, will be tound•in the evidence of Mr.. Abraham -Goldsmid. 4 4 ‘rom these answers of Mr.' Qi - erfullie, it appear, that when the computed ex ch iNe with Hamburgit was 29, that is ,, from 16 to 17 per cent: beluw . 7par, the real difference of ex cit tug:, resulting froth the state of trade and balance . 'of payments was no more than 5a per cent. against this country; that when the computed exchange wall-Amsterdam 31. 6. 'that is about 15 per cent. below par, .the real exchange was nu more than 7 per cent. against this country) that, when the corn'- : pu , ed exchange wtth Paris was 20, th:it is 20 per cuff, beiow par, the: real exchange wa's • t4).more than 8 igainst this country. After making these .pllowances, therefore, for the effea of the balance of . . trade and pay tu,uts upon • our exchange With those places, th;,re still remains a fall of t i per 'cent, in the exchange with gamburgh, of above 8 per cent, in the'exctlange with Holland, and per cent. in the exchange with Paris, to be explained in SOlnd other runnier. ' if ,the. sAille mode of calculation be applied be .to tire- more recent statements of the exchange uitli the .Continent, it will perhaps, appear, that iliongh , the .compuled exchange is at present against this c:Aintry, the real exchange is to its favour. From the foregoing reasoni ngs relative •to the state of th'e,exclianges,- if they are considered apart; your Committee find it difficult to resist an inter . ence, that a portion at It-ast of the great , fall .vi'hjch the exchanges. Ldely sotfered trust have're skilled not from the state of trade; but from a change in the relative value of our domestic currency. Bur when this deduction is jiined. with that whickyour. COrninittee have stwed, respecting the change in ithe market price of gold, that inference -appear* to be demonstrated._ • 1 [To be continued.] MAILS. Az ED,-1 Lisbon, t Dublin, t Witerford. .DUE—i Ca diz, i Waterford. • PRICE - OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE. O'CLOCK. Cunseis - 63 4 1 Red. Ann. - - 69 a `l'Li SUN. a soLem QUIS DICERE FALSI4II4.AUDEAT? LUNDOIV, L TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1840. Letters were this morning received. from Lord f +LLINGTON'S head-quarters, dated CelericO, the Ist inst. -1 1 0144e1e Papers also arrived to ,life and Span. : sh to the 31st ult. • • The infantry under Brigadier-General CRAA'PORD were posted in the valley of Moydego. Gen. lIEG. NIEII having tmade a movement with his division, the British cavalry were in advance watching the motinns Of the enemy. General HMI; had marched c,)Sarzedas in consequeme, of ItEGNIER's having . .•. macie a movement upon Sal va, err); tie former, how ever, still kept up his coiomunieation with Gete OLES, who is stationed 'at I;erada. No active pre parations for besieging • met,da appear to be making on , the part of the enemy, and the place, we uncierstand„was abundantly provided with every article necessary to the mo t :vigorous resistance. The Marquis DR LA ROMANA, with his corps, is at Merida, and the corpt ? .under MORTIEit had posted itself' on the duadalquiver. French Papers 'reached 'own last night to the 3th instant. Their consents are of very little itn- purlance. • The battle between the Turks and Russians is al hided to 'from various quarters; but no precise in formation is given. , . An Envoy' from the United Stßtes„to succeed Ge•- neral ARNISTKONG, arrived .at L'Orient on the 3d in stant. - • Private Letters from Holland of the 13th, state th:lt BUoNAPARTE .was-.expeEted. at Amsterdam yes terday. We. are attacked in a Morning Paper.of this day for " vilifying the meinory of Mr. Fox.'! That Pa per, however, very often indulges itself in " %jibly ing the memory of Mr. PITT." We.o ill not degrade the •charaaer of the wise and virtuous Statesmin last mentioned by any compatison with ilie foimer, but whenever he is attacked we shall never cease to defend his memory. Thesubjeat, however, which led to our mention, of Mr.Tox ;was the speech im puted to his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, in which he is said to have 'declared that he shall en deavour to,make Mr. Fox's political principles the creed of his illustrious daughter. We have at ire , sent but a word or two more to s:iy on the subject. Mr. Fox, on several occasions, asserted, that the re sistance of the People to the authority of Govern ment was merely a question of prudence, and should • . be estimated by their potivr. Is this a proper opi-, nion, to form , part of the pordical creed,olone who may be invested %4iith the Crown ' 7 of these realms ? Yesterday his MAJESTY and Princesses - MARY and SOPHIA took their usual rides in the Great Park till tyvt-Ive, accompanied by Lord WALSIN:ifiAM, Count MUNSTER, &C.. Her MAJESTY arl4 the Princess ELIZABETH took an airing to Frogmore Lo,ge, 'and, accOmpanied by Lady. HARCOVItT, walked in the girdens. Yesterday her Itiyal Highness the Princess of WALES, and a seled party, dined the Duchess Of fittuNswicK. Letters were yestetby received by ship from Tarragona, atter a voyage of only about 16 days.— At this very late date the French had made no pro gress in their attempts upon the East of Spain, and Tortosa.and Tarragona were expected to make a vi gorons defence wheriev'er the French should•think proper to commence 'the siege they had so long threatened. Letters from Bilboa and Santander state, that se rious consequences hadresult . ed from the late daring expedition under PORLIER. The French, as a pu nishment on the BiScoyans, have levied a contribu tion of 3,500,000 reals, and 12,000 men have been marched from Victoria, to OccopY the different towns and ports of that unfortunate province. A' person who left Santander on the 4th inst. describes in pain ful terms the condition of, that town and the adja cent country, in consequence of French exactions and oppressions._ . • . Mr. iVIuNGo PARKE.—We. feel much satisfaEliOn in communicating the intelligence contained in the following evraci, respeeling this, celebrated , travel ler.• We trust that the hopes which it holds Turh be'speedily realized : Extras of a Letter from Colonel Ikliotwell, dated Goveim. meat House, Senegal', 6th July, ISto, to the Secrctaty of the African Institution. " I have just received information from Goree, that Mr. LAPORTE, Of that IS1311(1, was, on the 27th of March last, at C , and had there met with a Toucaloor, who informed him, that-a month be fore, he had seen Mr. MUNGO PARtQE, rage, the name of which has escaped the memory of Mr. I.Apowrci that he was very we'll, but alone, having lost all his companions; that he intended to return to the coast by Galant to Sentgal, it being a shortei roue from Where' he was than by tiie Gambia. If he is really in existence, and has been seen by the Toucaloor, he probably adopted this re solntibnowing to the disturbed slate in which the upper part' of the Gambia is, on accodnt of warbe tween the " It is much to be lathented that Mr. LAPORTE . was not more precise in his inquiries ; there teas another anOther inhabitant of Goree with ho, .he saYs, has m , .)re particulars than himself, as he speaks the langua;e of the Toucaloor ; this person, Mr. I"to4NAND, has not yet returned from Gambia, I will transmit to you the earliest intelligence on the subject which I receive. _lf 'this rumour is ,true, I shall feel particularly delighted to have the pleasure of receiving Mr. PARKE, and to' forward him to his native land." This day the 1,0/VD-MAYOR ordered the price of Bread to be reduced td.• per peck. The quartern loaf will then be is. 5d . SP d NISH ALN.D . PORTWUESE PAP RS. LISBON, AUG. I.—We have received intelligence by teleg?aph,. that the enemy have It-Aired from Plnhel, crossed the Coa, .and taken the road to ,Val •de la Mula, and thence .to Val-,de ,Almeida. We expect a confirmation of this by a Courier. it is certain that the corps of General BERESFORp have, f • .lci inekl that of 11414r4ha1-General Lord WELLINGTON near Celorico ;14g,enemy did not dare to accept the battle which was offered to him The head-qoar ters,9f the latter have advanced from Ceforico.to Alverca. According to accounts from Braganza ; of the date of the 25th of 'July, General JUNPT arrived at Za mora on the 22d, ands troops were marching for that place from Salamanca. On the 23d, an enemy's . force of 8 or , 9000 men,' with eight pieces of artil lery, made its appearance -on the left bank of the 'Douro, in Fiathuso, and • the neighbouring places , .and threatenedtopass the Douro. I,7here wa, firing +•-r on both sides' itappears, however, that it was their intention to pass at Zamora. General - IifiIiLEBMAN . has art ived . .at„Benevente.'. To-day 36 deserters hdve been sent off.for the British army, and more are ex- . peaect this et eningi • By accounts fr:;rn 'B.tdajoz, dared July we lek'n. that .400 Drench of the corps of 'REGNIErt, • who pa,sed the left. bank ,of.. the Tagus in the boats . of Alconete, in order to 'recorinoitre,..were totally : routed by Brigadier Don C.- HESHANHA,- who' had • left • Alotiq'tleique for that point.. The Spanish vision of General - O'DONNELL hkewise marched trout AlbriOnyrgne for Ciceres, on the 29th inst. To-day h.,. wilt be in.Truxill. , aoJ theuce march to Alniaraz. • *., The day before yesterday acconnts were received that slime of the enety's •cavidry had entered Kon quilho. It is said to'he - adv:mced guard of a corp,i of 8000. men, which, pokier the conlinand of Mug- Tun, have entered Estreniadura.: Fifteen hundred men infantry and Cavalry, from the army of the'lele of Leon, ha . e .dise.t3l?ark ed at Ayamonte. 403ADA.TOZ JULY 29.—A person of treklit at Cadiz, writei,as follows,. under date ibe..2001 " From Baza a reg'rntnt of Polish c7...alry; both officers and soldiers, has desteited. - It is - sant - Mt they ate i6O in number. General Faliir nit-received them Well, and there, is .great reason to !ope these ex .amples will be repeated: 'Jesterd•+y,,a Colonel and two. Officers deserted for the ISla'." , • • LISBON, Ala. -S.—According to accounts from Badajoz, of the. 3 I:41 of -.lUly ; the French have sent 3000 sick from the Isle of Leon to Seville; the); hav,e atgreat number of . sick in that city; , almost all ortna lignant fevers, and numbers die .daily. LISBON, AUG. 4..--Our brave fellows under_ Ge neral •CitAi”ORD Betliiilly beat the French,, and kept possession of the field of battle, but. afterwards retreated-. The enemy left upwards of 700 men gnd thirty officers on . the ,scene of action. Lord 'WELLINGTON was at Celorico on the 9 t —Gene nil Hat: near puarda. The enemy is bt-tween Celorico and Almeida, which pike they we're be sieging-; it is defended by two Portuguese and one BritiSh'.regiment, u4der, the command 'of , -- Cox. OrnßTo, JULY is said that 13,000 of the Imperial uards, have arrived at Burgos : these, it is supposed, must be the force whichlwas at Castro poi, and that they have retrograded to Burgos. We may shortly expe& to hear of their being at Ciod,id Rodrigo; no doubt they will be sent to the south ward to assist REGNIER. LOISSON is at Gil!egos, and Sir B. SPENCER at Alverca. :JULY 29.—1 t is reported here, that 25,000 men are on the'roUte for Braganza, to enter Tras los Monies.' The Portuguese troops are ready to march at a moment's notice. We every instant expea to bear of a battle.having been fought. PORIIER has been obliged to embark his band ,of patriots from Biscay; JULY 31.—The campaign was opened last Wed nesday, by. LOISSON attacking on the .bridge of Coa the light brigade under the orders of ,Gen. CRAW.• FORD.. LOISS9N had 7000 infantry, 12 squadrons of cavalry, EtOd 14 pieces of artillery ; CaAwi'oan the 52d, 43d, and 95th British, and Ist and 3d Por tuguese-light infantry. The action commenced at five, and lasted till ball-past nine. It was extreme ly sharp, and • more resembled a general battle than skirrnish., We lost 251) men and 23 officers.— The Portuguese fought like lions, more particu larly the -3d, • Colonel ELDER'S regitnent.,: On the 20th the enemy entered Pitiliel ; on the 28th Francoza,;-, we ace, therefore, now imhowly expeclation of hearing of a ~general aelion, and Guarda appears to be . ,the most-desirable and best position for our army. Our -last letters from Cdo rico aT of the 231 h, at which place General BE ES , to FORD had his ltgetd-qu::rterg, and out artily w a- to march on th a t even i ng f or t h e pass of PQ;Pc, de nocello j close to Guards.JuNoes about . 2 th e ..I,ooo,,will.enter by B raganza 5 an d as . 2 00 of the militia (northern) divisionwas _only 9 !e from the enemy, probably, ere this, some ti;li ti has taken place. General 1 - 111.1. Was at Astorp oa the 24th. It is thou g ht that RE'a l nett ouly'de'' c ed a part of his troops to the northward. CORUNNA; JULY 23.—The etienly taking - tape of - the absenc e o f •all on' t troops, entered S irei'i ; the 12th lost, .but betrayed every where the which. our late confii.as _with 'his troops har e cited. In order to penetrate into it territory ha, already cast him so. much blood,, the colleCted from Bast rago, Madrid, and QuUde CJ,s e4l l, , a force of 700 men, for the most part Cola VIAL arrived in Seguenza with 300 hor se ° ., 6 800 foot,• and openly declared it io..be his P r iti : intention to destroy El Empezinado (Colonel 211. ' r "' and to fire the houe of residence of the. o ;p r, rior Junta. In B r ib uega RozILLE ance with 400 men, and addressed - tO th e bitants a variety of Mysterious titte,tions relJtiv e t our light parties. Af ter having coini.netel toe heinous cruelties, they" reireafel <ul :E,theinstant, at e in the tnUrning. to .1 ,1,1it-1'1! by the road •of Vallaseca and iMai.d.illorot ,r1:1 the • result of the, said ex p e di t iO n was .111. ZlLLE . robbz . dlhe patiSh plait:: of I3udia, andui a ' (1( lone! VIAL instead of maillt,ng ;n ii „, st of d i e , back 11 to 4 ioint t2-lea the position which he ktiew to be occtip,v,J ill' c, lebrated partizan.--;(Corunria Ditiry, It 6 :13.) LISBON, AUG. 3.—T:ie ter:e• t alt rani Spain s,tatei, that th , - Fretich Licke4 General Ca.A.,...,.r)1:D's consist 4 of ten • thOurail.l isslcu ; 1; was - present, and ; that. the. fr.10i,.; C.; 113 n!'` by General-CRAwFO'III) did not exceed four men. : The 'combined force there repulsed thee° my with the . balyonet, who endeavoured 'to forc')lta bridge. The• Spa n i s h artillery infiktcd a ' cve ye mt loss on the French. S ome F renc h par ties, t `' e advanced ; and e n t ere d Pi n hel , -. are sa id 10 baC e (3' left it again, as they found i t d eser t e d ;by. all mines which had any valuable articles to SaVe• The place of Ahnei'cla which the enemy 11 .1 5. '1, - ; invested, is not one of those which d-r • -- _ . were appearance of an enemy's corps, b..ir is, ever r i respect, , able to sustain a long siege. The Got' err'° r of Almeida is Brigadier General Cox, an Oilic' er°: 11 01 distinguished talent s and va l our , an d who for - t reason was' selected to: command in, -thtic portant place a brave garrison sufficient !`) fend . it. He is supported by 'a numeroOs 31111, convosed. of the hoops of two gallant l which ere strangers to p er fidy an d treason soi l ase honot,tr, detest cowardice, and are commanded lit a General who is respeoled by th e enem y on occ.° of his great tried military talents. - On the 24th of last month General LorsoN , • commands the investing army, ''mi s t a ki n g the G° nernor of Almeida for a Portuguese Genera l nt him a fulminating intimation to surrender the P 13 ‘ 1 1 ; full of inveetives, against the English, and of:i ( l e `q. to prove that.the English. despise the Porfugu e° .l consider Portugal as an Engli s h p r o v i n ce, 2 °' l ' o f certainly t f )etray,.4er cause,, as they have done 'bat ,1„ Spain.. 10 1 It does not appear that t h e enem y has nulo progress since ; nay it seems probable that he to, raise the investment of Almeida. The W I telligence from Spain does not mention any operation of moment in' that 'quarter.--(l' - ;s cP Diary, of Aug. 3.) 1 Cred;t . . BADAJCZ, JULY 30.—A letter worthy 0 states,' that the enemy tired the torn of A 11 11344 „ Our light Firties killed 500 of his troops bridge, but having ,be,n reinforced from Sierr.l; French entered 'the place, sacked ii, and convo! all kinds of excesses: , . Yesterday.the General Court-martial again - - , 5 ; bled, at Chelsea- College (in pursuance of th"'` e' journment on Friday laity, for the purpose ol o ing the defence. of Lieutenant WALTER LEWIS,. of the '.ed , Royal Tower-Hamlet Regi tli e 'd of Militia, againstwhom qeveraT charges have i s i J preferred by Colonel SMITH, cornailnding regiment of ; the Particnleirs of wil:c h ' l. alre•ldy been stated. g er Several witnesses on b e half of the prisoner, v examined. .• The defence of • the prisoner being handed by BARRY (his Coutiq.el), to the Hon. CHAIILES:L y 34 NERS.SUTTON, Ore Dquty Judge Advocate; i t c is. then read by him to the Court in - tiis itsnAl i ' li c sive•style, its beitnr, - read, 'the whole proteedingkeing, thus ended, the-Court then el in order that its members might determine thei!, s ; o t tence on the prisoner,' the revile of which • be made public, till sanctioned by hisMaj , sl . t o A letter from Rostock giVes nufavonrahle'ac c° A o o of the-state of 'affairs -t that pug. It appea rs itt measures of great severity had, been resn r iecl t l , ,; g • that harbour. agai n st all Ameri ca n a" ( 1 none of them were permitted to' land any 1 .3 r" their C 3 rgoel " rs?